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THE  AMERICAN  BAPTIST 
HOME  MISSION  SOCIETY 

23  East  26th  Street  New  York  City' 


THE  WOMAN’S  AMERICAN  BAPTIST 
HOME  MISSION  SOCIETY 

2969  Vernon  o^venue  Chicago,  Ill. 


Report  of  deputation  to  jfflextco 

The  Deputation  was  in  Mexico  thirty-two  days  (September  3d  to 
October  5th,  1910).  Seven  days  were  devoted  to  the  National  Baptist 
Convention  and  the  National  Sunday  School  and  Young  People’s  Conven¬ 
tion,  the  most  representative  and  largest  evangelical  gatherings  ever  held 
in  the  Republic.  We  saw  also  in  the  capital  the  opening  of  the  new  and 
noble  Y.  M.  C.  A.  building  by  President  Porfirio  Diaz.  Two  days  were 
given  to  the  significant  and  instructive  observances  with  which  the  cen¬ 
tennial  celebration  of  Mexican  Independence  culminated.  The  rest  of  the 
time  we  were  studying  mission  work  elsewhere  in  the  Republic,  from  Neuevo 
Laredo,  on  the  Rio  Grande,  to  Oaxaca,  near  the  Isthmus  of  Tehuantepec, 
a  thousand  miles  southward.  In  all  we  visited  sixteen  Baptist  mission 
stations,  including  two  of  the  Southern  Baptist  Convention.  Incidentally, 
eight  stations  of  other  denominations  were  visited.  At  the  conventions 
we  were  in  close  touch  with  the  workers  of  other  Baptist  fields  and  had 
invaluable  opportunities  of  conference  with  the  leaders  of  other  denomi¬ 
nations. 

In  the  nature  of  the  case,  however,  our  findings  make  no  pretence  of 
being  exhaustive,  and  the  report  of  them  must  be  put  in  the  briefest  form 
consistent  with  the  seriousness  of  our  mission  and  with  an  earnest  en¬ 
deavor  to  present  facts  essential  to  the  prosecution  of  the  work. 

After  calling  attention  to  (1)  General  Conditions,  (2)  the  Character 
of  Our  Workers,  (3)  Baptist  Unity,  (4)  Relations  with  Other  Denomina¬ 
tions,  (5)  Evangelization,  (6)  Immediate  Advances,  (7)  Education,  (8) 
Medical  Work,  (9)  Woman’s  Field  Work,  (10)  Church  Edifice  Work,  (11) 
American  Colonists,  (12)  Volunteer  Work,  and  (13)  Some  Guiding  Prin¬ 
ciples,  we  shall  state  together  our  (14)  Recommendations  for  Immediate 
Action  by  the  Two  Societies. 


I.  (general  ConbtttmKf 


General  conditions  cannot  be  described  in  the  space  at  command. 
Some  of  them  must  be  merely  named,  however,  both  well  known  and 
seldom  considered  conditions,  because  they  are  so  essential  in  the  missionary 
situation. 

1.  The  population  of  Mexico  is  about  15,000,000,  or  greater  than 
that  of  the  United  States  when  Abraham  Lincoln  entered  public  life.  The 
area  is  757,760  square  miles,  or  equal  to  that  of  Great  Britain,  France, 
Germany  and  Austria-Hungary  all  combined.  Only  a  beginning  has  been 
made  in  the  development  of  the  agricultural,  mineral  and  other  resources 
of  the  country. 

2.  The  prevailing  religion  is  Roman  Catholicism,  but  of  a  type  which 
is  so  different  from  the  Roman  Catholic  standard  in  the  United  States,  that 
many  churchmen  going  to  Mexico  cannot  in  conscience  identify  themselves 
with  the  Church  there.  Multitudes  of  the  aborigines  are  not  yet  within 
the  pale  of  Christianity.  Other  multitudes,  including  many  of  the  in¬ 
fluential  and  best  educated  men,  are  distinctly  religious. 

3.  Moral  standards  among  vast  numbers  of  people  are  distressingly 
low.  It  would  not  be  seemly  to  dwell  on  what  are  the  undoubted  facts 
in  this  most  vital  matter. 

4.  Church  and  state  are  legally  divorced  so  that  there  is  perfect  legal 
freedom  for  evangelical  work.  The  Hierarchy  and  the  Government  are  in 
relations  sometimes  hostile  and  sometimes  cordial.  This  relationship  and 
the  liberality  of  public  opinion  differ  greatly  in  different  localities.  In 
two  places  the  present  year  our  workers  have  suffered  persecution  at  the 

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hands  of  incited  mobs  to  the  extent  not  only  of  chapel  wrecking,  but  also 
of  stoning  and  other  severe  personal  violence,  including  shooting.  In  both 
cases  the  local  authorities  have  apologized  for  the  outrages,  and  promised 
complete  protection  in  the  future.  In  one  place  this  result  was  secured 
in  connection  with  the  visit  and  representations  of  the  Deputation.  The 
3,000  priests  in  the  country  have  vast  influence.  In  one  crowded  city 
we  saw  the  majority  of  the  people  on  the  streets  drop  to  their  knees  and 
remain  there  till  a  carriage  containing  a  priest  with  the  elements  for 
administering  extreme  unction  passed  out  of  sight.  The  Archbishop  in 
his  carriage,  without  the  sacred  elements,  is  said  to  be  reverenced  in  the 
same  way. 

5.  The  influence  of  evangelical  Christianity  in  Mexico  is  consider¬ 
able,  much  greater  than  its  relative  numbers.  Estimates  as  to  the  number 
of  communicants  vary  from  thirty  to  sixty  thousand.  The  Deputation 
instituted  measures  for  ascertaining  more  closely.  In  67  Baptist  churches, 
2,871  members  are  reported.  It  is  known  that  we  have  more  than  three 
thousand  communicants.  The  evangelicals  are  “like  unto  leaven  hid,  till 
it  was  all  leavened.”  One  great  need  of  Mexico  is  a  middle  class,  the 
strength  of  republics.  Such  a  class  has  been  wanting.  Evangelical  religion 
is  creating  it.  The  signs  of  this  are  unmistakable.  The  costly  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
building  at  the  capital,  erected  largely  with  Mexican  money,  is  significant. 

6.  The  present  time  is  auspicious.  Mexico  is  experiencing  tremen¬ 
dous  material  development.  More  than  that,  “Liberty”  and  “Progress’’ 
are  in  the  air,  so  much  so,  that  those  are  the  two  words  hung  in  great 
letters  of  electric  light  on  the  massive  towers  of  the  cathedral  itself  in 
Mexico  City.  The  centennial  celebration  of  Mexican  independence  has 
accentuated  the  progressive  movement.  This  is  the  time  to  strike  with 
vigor  for  the  complete  spiritual  liberation  of  the  people. 

7.  Mexico  is  the  region  where  one  of  the  supreme  tests  of  the  power 
of  Christianity  is  to  be  made,  its  power  to  regenerate  one  of  the  grand 
divisions  of  the  human  race,  the  American  division. 

In  the  United  States  the  human  race  in  its  European  stock  is  coming 
to  its  highest  development,  we  fondly  believe.  In  Mexico  the  human  race 
in  its  truly  American  stock  may  well  come  to  its  highest  development. 
In  the  life-tide  of  our  own  nation,  taken  as  a  whole,  there  is  scarcely  a 
trace  of  American  blood.  In  Mexico  81  per  cent,  of  the  people,  including 
their  great  President  and  leading  citizens  generally,  have  aboriginal  blood 
in  their  veins,  and  38  per  cent,  of  them  are  unmixed  Americans,  like  Juares, 
their  greatest  President  before  Diaz.  The  people  are  justly  proud  of  their 
Indian  blood,  more  so  than  of  their  Spanish  blood.  Your  Deputation  saw 
at  Mitla  the  splendid  remains  of  a  pre-Columbian  civilization,  in  some 
respects  unmistakably  superior  to  what  is  even  yet  the  average  attainment 
of  European  America.  Perhaps  the  most  significant  features  of  the  cen¬ 
tennial  pageant  in  the  capital  were  the  long  files  of  Indians  in  studiously 
reproduced  aboriginal  costumes.  But  the  figures  themselves  were  not  far 
fetched  nor  their  faces  tinted  for  the  occasion.  They  were  pure-blooded 
Aztecs  and  kindred  races.  Some  of  the  suburbs  of  the  capital  itself  are 
peopled  with  them.  We  prospected  for  a  mission  station  in  a  quarter 
where  ten  thousand  of  them  live.  In  thinking  of  Mexico  we  may  well  be 
dispossessed  of  our  customary  provincial  thoughts  about  Indians  and,  con¬ 
sidering  their  glorious  past  and  their  splendid  present  here,  we  do  well 
to  eagerly  seize  the  privilege  of  helping  to  prove  what  God  can  do  with 
real  Americans  by  giving  His  well-beloved  Son  a  free  hand  among  them. 

8.  As  a  denomination  we  have  peculiar  obligations  to  minister  in 
Mexico.  The  “Reform  Laws”  separating  church  and  state,  which  are 
generally  regarded  as  the  fundamental  expression  of  the  new  life  creating 
modern  Mexico  are  essentially  Baptistic.  They  enunciate  the  principles 
which  were  embodied  in  civil  government  for  the  first  time  on  earth  by  our 
Baptist  forefathers  in  the  Colony  of  Rhode  Island,  the  principles  which 

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later  spread  throughout  the  United  States  and  are  exerting  an  increasing 
influence  over  the  whole  human  race.  We  are  inherently  fitted  and  there¬ 
fore  called  upon  to  minister  to  Mexico  in  her  present  stage  of  development. 
When  under  terrific  odds  she  is  asserting  our  fundamental  principle  of 
“soul  liberty,”  our  obligation  to  strengthen  her  hands  is  immeasurable. 
We  are  under  obligation  also  because  our  democratic  form  of  church  life 
furnishes  the  complete  and  winsome  contrast  to  the  ecclesiastical  type  from 
which  progressive  Mexicans  are  breaking  away. 

9.  It  is  impossible  to  justly  estimate  the  work  in  Mexico  without 
keeping  one  other  general  condition  in  mind.  Mexico  is  the  pivotal  point 
of  the  Kingdom  of  God  in  Latin  America.  There  are  twenty-one  republics 
on  our  side  of  the  world.  Nearest  our  own  evangelical  country  is  Mexico. 
It  is  in  every  way  situated  and  fitted  to  become  the  seed-plot  and  nursery 
for  the  planting  of  the  nineteen  republics  beyond  it.  Kome  recognizes  its 
natural  leadership  by  recently  making  the  sanctuary  of  the  Virgin  of 
Gaudalupe,  near  the  capital  of  Mexico,  the  outranking  shrine  of  all  America. 
By  reason  of  neighborhood  with  us,  by  reason  of  racial  and  linguistic  op¬ 
portunities  with  the  other  republics,  by  reason  of  inherited  leadership  in  the 
higher  development  of  native  America,  by  reason  of  inherent  progressive¬ 
ness,  Mexico  is  called  upon  to  reinterpret  Christianity  for  all  our  sister 
republics  on  this  hemisphere.  Members  of  the  Deputation  who  have  visited 
the  lands  of  the  Bible,  were  impressed  with  resemblances  many  and  striking 
in  Mexico.  This  goes  beyond  outward  appearances,  remarkable  as  they  are. 
Biblical  life  and  Mexican  life  show  profound  similarities  in  ways  of  think¬ 
ing,  feeling  and  expression.  When  we  give  it  a  full  chance  the  Bible  will 
be  most  welcome  and  at  home  in  Mexico.  Ultimately  Mexicans  ought  to 
interpret  it  to  the  world  better  than  Anglo-Saxons  can.  Shall  we  open 
our  eyes  to  this  unique  mission  of  Mexico  and  lend  a  hand  at  the  present 
critical  hour? 


II.  Character  of  our  Workers 

The  character  of  the  workers  whom  God  has  given  us  is  cause  for 
profound  gratitude.  The  General  Missionary  combines  optimism  and 
energy  with  caution  and  persistence.  He  has  rapidly  acquired  an  unusually 
good  use  of  the  Spanish  language.  Mexican  missionaries  connected  with 
other  societies  speak  of  this.  More  important  still  is  his  appreciation  of 
the  people  and  sympathetic  understanding  of  them.  They  confidently  turn 
to  him  as  a  brother  beloved.  The  entire  Deputation  is  impressed  by  the 
evidences  of  his  comprehensive  grasp  of  the  field — seeing  it  whole — and 
of  his  impartial  administration  of  details.  The  advantage  to  the  cause 
of  having  a  general  superintendent  of  the  work  is  beyond  question. 

If  space  permitted  it  would  be  a  pleasure  to  speak  of  every  missionary 
whom  we  met,  both  American  and  Mexican.  We  expected  a  high  type 
among  the  American  missionaries  and  were  not  disappointed.  The  Mexican 
brethren  were  a  revelation  to  us  and  a  joy.  There  is  a  great  variety  of 
gifts  and  of  interesting  personalities.  But  without  an  exception  there  is  a 
remarkably  high  standard  of  ability  and  of  devotion.  It  is  a  positive  self- 
denial  to  us  to  refrain  from  describing  the  charm  and  strength  of  Christian 
character  which  we  found  conducting  our  work  in  place  after  place.  If 
Baptists  in  the  North  do  not  back  up  such  people  as  are  in  charge  of  our 
work  in  Mexico  we  are  not  fit  to  live.  As  with  all  men,  and  peculiarly 
with  ministers,  especially  missionaries  in  foreign  lands,  the  wives  are  a  most 
vital  factor  in  the  work. 


III.  Paptisit  Unit? 

The  relations  of  our  missionaries  with  those  of  the  Foreign  Board  of 
the  Southern  Baptist  Convention  are  ideal:  (a)  in  the  Baptist  Conven¬ 
tion  of  Mexico  where  there  is  no  North  and  no  South,  but  all  are  one  in 


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Christ  Jesus;  (b)  in  the  joint  publication  of  a  weekly  denominational 
paper,  “El  Bautista;”  (c)  in  the  proposal  to  have  a  united  Training  School 
for  Ministers;  (d)  in  the  occupation  of  fields.  When  the  workers  of  either 
Board  are  in  one  of  the  states  of  the  [Republic,  those  of  the  other  Board 
do  not  undertake  work  in  that  state.  Your  Deputation  expressed  to  the 
Mexico  Baptist  Convention  emphatic  approval  of  its  methods  in  this 
respect  and  prayer  for  their  unbroken  continuance. 


IV.  delations  tnitf)  otfjer  denominations 


Our  relations  with  other  denominations  are  fraternal.  In  Sunday 
School,  temperance  and  evangelistic  work  there  is  active  co-operation. 
Many  years  ago,  after  repeated  conference,  an  informal  agreement  was 
reached  that  in  places  of  less  than  thirty  thousand  population,  if  one 
evangelical  body  is  at  work  there  others  will  not  enter.  On  such  a  basis 
as  that,  at  the  present  rate  of  advance,  it  will  be  a  long  time  before  the 
absolute  destitution  is  overtaken.  It  would  be  an  advantage  in  obviating 
confusion  of  thought  among  Mexicans  if  convenient  areas  could  be  allotted 
among  denominations  as  they  are  in  Porto  Rico.  If  the  entire  Republic 
is  to  be  thoroughly  leavened  with  the  Gospel  an  energetic,  harmonious 
advance  is  needful. 


V.  Cbangelpatum 

Ordinary  methods  of  evangelizing  the  world  such  as  public  preaching, 
the  Sunday  School  and  visiting  in  the  homes  are  employed  with  success. 
Much  evangelical  work  is  done  in  our  day  schools.  Many  adults  are  won, 
yet  our  great  hope  for  the  evangelization  of  Mexico  lies  in  the  children. 
Many  parents  who  have  not  the  courage  to  break  with  their  old  customs, 
yet  desire  their  children  to  follow  our  Lord.  In  the  school  at  Monterey 
15  per  cent,  of  all  the  pupils  are  converted. 

We  find  that  the  churches  under  the  direction  of  the  American  Baptist 
Home  Mission  Society  number  21,  have  1,141  members,  and  had  155  bap¬ 
tisms  last  year.  There  are  42  other  mission  stations,  some  of  which  are 
about  ready  for  church  organization.  We  have  16  Mexican  men  in  the 
service  and  5  from  the  United  States.  There  are  10  Mexican  women  and 
3  from  the  United  States.  Comparative  figures  with  churches  under  other 
auspices  show  that  for  number  of  workers  and  money  spent  we  are  realizing 
as  large  results  as  any,  considerably  larger  than  some.  In  fact,  there  is 
an  increase  by  baptism  of  15  per  cent. 

Our  General  Missionary  and  some  of  our  pastors,  notably  Rev.  Alejandro 
Trevino,  have  rendered  fruitful  service  in  evangelistic  campaigns.  The 
students  of  our  Theological  School  at  Monterey  have  been  sent  out  on 
pastoral  and  evangelizing  missions  during  their  vacations  and  with  most 
excellent  results.  This  work  ought  to  be  extended  as  much  as  possible. 
Plans  are  under  way  whereby  during  the  coming  year  special  meetings 
will  be  held  in  every  church  and  an  efficient  worker  employed  to  give  his 
entire  time  to  such  work. 

The  development  of  missionary  activity  on  the  part  of  our  Mexican 
churches  is  one  of  the  best  signs  of  the  success  of  our  work  for  them. 
The  Convention  has  been  for  a  year  or  two  supporting  a  mission  among 
the  Indians  at  Coenea  without  outside  help.  There  are  said  to  be  5,000,000 
Indians  in  Mexico  yet  who  have  not  acquired  Spanish.  The  churches  have 
also  been  contributing  generously  to  our  Baptist  Home  and  Foreign  Mission 
Societies.  The  combined  missionary  offerings  of  all  the  Baptist  churches  of 

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the  Republic  were,  last  year,  $1,098  (gold)  an  average  of  40  cents  per 
member.  When  we  remember  that  most  of  our  converts  are  very  poor  and 
their  wages  pitifully  small,  we  regard  it  as  a  remarkable  showing.  The 
churches  fostered  by  our  Society  are  not  behind  others  in  this  regard. 
At  the  Convention  of  1910  it  was  decided  to  support  a  missionary  in 
Chile  at  a  cost  of  $30.00  (gold)  each  month,  and  over  $550  were  pledged 
for  the  Convention’s  missionary  work  during  the  coming  year. 

VI.  Kmmetuate  Sifoattces 


There  are  many  directions  in  which  we  ought  to  make  immediate  ad¬ 
vance.  The  following  may  serve  as  examples: 

At  Encarnacion,  with  a  population  of  6,000,  where  our  brethren  have 
been  violently  persecuted,  the  work  should  be  strengthened.  A  port  of 
entry  for  the  Republic  has  30,000  people  and  but  one  small  evangelical 
work,  which  hardly  touches  the  field.  As  in  other  coast  towns,  the  people 
are  inclined  to  be  liberal  minded.  It  is  thought  that  the  Tampico  results 
could  soon  be  duplicated  here.  A  suburb  of  Mexico  City  has  10,000  people 
with  no  work  of  any  sort.  The  populous  state  of  Oaxaca  has  only  one 
mission  station  to  every  150,000  people.  A  city  of  100,000  has  only  one 
small  mission.  One  city  has  20,000  people  and  absolutely  no  evangelical 
work  of  any  kind.  But  why  multiply  instances?  All  over  the  Republic 
are  large  cities  manned  in  a  wholly  inadequate  way,  and  scores  of  com¬ 
munities  with  from  3,000  to  30,000  people  each  without  the  Gospel.  Two 
new  stations  a  year  ought  to  be  occupied  until  we  have  undertaken  our 
full  share  of  responsibility  for  the  evangelization  of  Mexico. 


VII.  Cbucation 

More  than  8,000,000  people  in  the  Republic  who  have  reached  their 
majority  can  neither  read  nor  write.  The  educational  work  carried  on  by 
our  societies  is  very  limited  in  extent.  At  Monterey  a  theological  school 
is  maintained  in  rented  quarters  with  some  twelve  students  and  two  in¬ 
structors.  The  services  of  the  well-organized  church  and  Sunday  School 
at  Monterey,  with  the  various  mission  stations  in  connection  therewith, 
serve  as  a  practical  laboratory  for  the  students  who  have,  in  connection 
with  their  studies,  weekly  training  in  active  mission  work.  At  Monterey, 
Mexico  City  and  Guadalupe  good  day  schools  are  maintained  by  the 
Woman’s  Society,  and  at  Puebla  a  similar  school  is  being  maintained,  with 
partial  support  from  the  Home  Mission  Society.  The  Monterey  school  is  held  in 
the  church  building,  those  in  Mexico  City  and  Puebla  in  rented  houses. 
At  Oaxaca  the  wife  of  our  missionary  is  conducting  a  day  school  in  the 
mission  house  without  salary,  the  equipment  having  been  furnished  by 
the  Home  Mission  Society.  This  is  all  that  we  are  doing  in  an  educational 
way.  We  own  no  school  property  nor  has  anything  been  done  in  the  way 
of  advanced  education,  except  in  the  theological  school  already  mentioned. 

Under  the  Foreign  Mission  Board  of  the  Southern  Baptist  Convention 
boarding  schools  are  maintained,  one  for  girls  only,  at  Saltillo,  and  one  for 
each  sex,  at  Tolucca.  This  Board  also  maintains  a  Theological  School  at 
Torreon.  In  these  places  school  properties  of  considerable  value  are  owned 
by  the  Board. 

Some  opportunity  was  afforded  the  Deputation  of  inspecting  educa¬ 
tional  plants  owned  by  other  bodies.  In  Monterey  the  Southern  Methodists 
have  a  well-established  school,  with  two  large  buildings  and  a  residence 
for  the  director.  At  Coyocan,  a  suburb  of  Mexico  City,  the  Foreign  Board 


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of  the  Northern  Presbyterian  Church  is  developing  a  school  for  boys.  The 
property  consists  of  some  seven  acres  of  land,  and  there  is  upon  it  a 
handsome  church  building,  a  recitation  hall  substantially  built  of  stone,  and 
two  dormitory  buildings,  besides  a  president’s  residence.  The  entire  plant 
is  valued  at  $50,000  (gold).  The  same  Board  is  conducting  a  boarding 
school  for  girls  in  Mexico  City  which  will  soon  be  removed  to  new 
quarters  near  the  boys’  school  at  Coyocan.  Under  this  Board  also  a  day 
school  for  both  sexes  is  maintained  at  Aguasealientes.  At  Puebla  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  North  has  a  large  and  well-equipped  boarding 
school  for  girls,  and  has  just  opened  one  of  the  handsomest  school  buildings 
in  the  ^Republic  on  the  outskirts  of  the  city,  for  boys.  This  church  has 
also  a  boarding  school  for  girls  in  Mexico  City,  in  a  building  equally 
fine.  Other  good  schools  there  are,  such  as  the  “ Friends’  ”  school  at 
Victoria;  the  Presbyterian  schools  at  Montemorelos,  and  the  Congregational 
school  at  Guadalajara. 

The  Deputation  are  agreed  unanimously  that  as  fast  as  our  resources 
will  permit  we  should  aim  at  the  development  of  an  educational  system 
m  connection  with  our  mission  in  Mexico,  comprising  the  following  features: 

A.  The  enlargement  of  the  work  of  theological  instruction. 

B.  The  establishment  of  a  boarding  school  in  some  central  location, 
for  boys  and  girls,  similar  to  the  school  at  Cristo,  Cuba. 

C.  The  maintenance  of  a  day  school  on  each  important  mission  field. 

D.  As  a  guiding  principle  the  training  of  Christian  workers  should  be 
kept  steadily  in  mind,  and  equipment  should  be  provided,  not  for  large 
numbers,  but  for  small  numbers  carefully  selected  with  reference  to  this 
main  purpose. 

It  is  of  course  understood  that  the  educational  work  here  outlined 
could  not  all  be  attempted  at  once.  It  will  probably  take  several  years 
to  put  the  plan  into  complete  operation,  but  it  appears  to  us  that  it  is 
important  that  what  educational  work  we  do  should  be  done  in  accordance 
with  this  definite  policy. 

For  the  immediate  future  the  Deputation  would  recommend  the 
following: 

1.  That  an  attempt  be  made  to  unite  with  the  Foreign  Board  of  the 
Southern  Baptist  Convention  in  the  work  of  theological  education.  The 
cordial  relations  existing  on  the  field  among  the  workers  of  our  two  Baptist 
Boards  encourage  the  belief  that  some  feasible  plan  of  work  can  be  agreed 
upon.  A  conference  was  held  in  Mexico  City  upon  this  subject  with  mis¬ 
sionaries  of  both  Boards,  and  as  a  result  a  committee  was  appointed  by 
the  National  Baptist  Convention,  then  in  session,  to  confer  with  the  repre¬ 
sentatives  of  our  Boards  looking  to  a  union  theological  school.  The  Boards 
will  be  approached  by  this  committee  in  the  near  future.  The  National 
Convention  appeared  to  our  company  to  be  a  body  of  much  strength  and 
vitality  which  might  serve  as  a  unifying  element  in  the  work  of  our 
two  Boards. 

2.  In  the  event  of  a  conference  being  held  between  representatives 
of  our  Boards  operating  in  Mexico  we  recommend  that  our  representation  in 
that  conference  be  instructed  to  raise  the  question  of  the  possibility  of 
further  co-operation: 


(a)  In  the  maintenance  of  a  department  of  instruction  in  Sunday 
School  work,  and  methods  in  connection  with  the  theological  school. 

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tb)  In  the  maintenance  of  a  Baptist  Publishing  House. 

An  active  propaganda  for  the  improvement  of  the  Sunday  Schools  in  our 
churches  in  the  Republic  is  a  need  deeply  felt  by  our  missionaries.  The 
Foreign  Board  of  the  Southern  Convention  is  maintaining  a  publishing  house 
with  good  initial  equipment  at  Leon.  One  plant  is  ample  for  all  our  work, 
and  a  union  of  forces  in  the  work  of  publication  seems  eminently  desirable. 

3.  That  a  boarding  school  for  girls  be  opened  next  year  in  the 
premises  now  occupied  by  the  day  school  in  Mexico  City.  This  house  could, 
with  the  expenditure  of  $600  (gold)  for  equipment,  be  made  to  accommo¬ 
date  comfortably  some  10  or  12  boarding  pupils.  For  the  permanent  home 
of  such  a  school,  a  location  in  the  heart  of  a  large  city  is  not  desirable. 
A  site  in  some  suburban  town  affording  room  for  a  school  for  boys,  as  well 
as  girls,  and  an  ample  campus  is  necessary  for  the  best  work. 

4.  That  day  schools  be  established  next  year  at  the  following  points 
and  in  the  following  order:  At  Puebla,  where,  as  indicated  above,  a  good 
start  has  been  made;  at  Aguascalientes,  where  our  missionary  is  building 
solidly,  and  where  there  is  every  prospect  of  immediate  success  in  school 
work;  at  Montemorelos,  where  we  already  have  the  necessary  equipment, 
and  where  school  work  was  suspended  some  years  ago.  Schools  are  also 
urgently  needed  at  San  Luis  Potosi,  Tampico  and  Oaxaca  and  should,  if 
possible,  be  established  the  following  year. 

These  day  schools  should  not  be  regarded  as  competing  in  any  way 
with  the  Mexican  Public  Schools.  Their  aim  is  entirely  different.  They 
are  evangelizing  agencies  of  proved  value,  and  selective  agencies  whence 
come  our  best  workers.  The  splendid  results  of  the  school  at  Monterey, 
out  of  which  some  twelve  young  men  have  come  to  enter  the  native  ministry, 
and  similar  results  in  other  places  afford  a  sufficient  justification  of  these 
schools  and  their  maintenance  by  a  Christian  body. 

It  is  not  proposed  to  furnish  buildings  for  these  schools.  The  rooms 
occupied  by  the  Sunday  Schools  will,  in  most  cases,  be  ample,  and  by  using 
them  every  day,  property  that  would  otherwise  be  idle  during  the  week 
will  be  used  to  advantage.  Thus  also  if  at  any  time  it  should  seem  best 
to  discontinue  these  schools,  there  will  be  no  unused  property  on  our  hands. 

5.  That  a  division  of  this  educational  work  between  the  societies 
be  made  such  as  exists  in  Cuba,  whereby  the  maintenance  of  the  day 
schools,  and  for  the  present  the  boarding  school  for  girls,  be  assumed  by 
the  Woman’s  Society,  leaving  the  support  of  the  theological  school  and  of 
the  boarding  school  for  boys,  when  established,  to  the  Home  Mission 
Society. 


VIII.  jffleDtcal  Work 

A  good  beginning  has  been  made  in  the  form  of  work  which  is  so 
exactly  in  line  with  that  of  the  Master  Himself. 

(a)  Dr.  C.  E.  Conwell,  our  medical  missionary  in  Mexico  City,  is  a  skill¬ 
ful  surgeon  and  physician  of  broad  experience,  with  a  large  acquaintance  and 
practice.  His  wife  is  studying  medicine.  Both  have  a  dominating  evan¬ 
gelistic  purpose.  A  plan  should  be  provided  for  this  expanding  work. 
There  is  no  hospital  in  Mexico  City  where  evangelistic  religious  work  can  be 
done. 

Dr.  Conwell  is  now  in  the  employ  of  our  Society,  but  he  came  to 
Mexico  under  a  strong  impulsion  of  duty  without  the  backing  of  any 
Society.  He  remains  in  like  spirit  in  spite  of  repeated  offers  of  a  salaried, 
professional  position  in  his  home  city  in  the  United  States  at  many  times 

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his  income  as  a  missionary.  Mrs.  Conwell  devotes  her  exceptional  gifts  in 
the  same  spirit.  They  are  now  conducting  large  free  clinics  connected 
with  religious  services,  both  at  his  office,  on  San  Francisco  Avenue,  and  at 
the  chapel  in  Guadalupe,  and  are  reaching  more  cases  of  need  than  any 
other  physician  in  Mexico  City.  God  himself  has  given  us  the  work  and 
the  workers.  We  must  provide  a  place  where  the  work  can  be  done.  The 
value  of  Christian  hospital  work  as  an  auxiliary  evangelizing  agency  has 
been  abundantly  demonstrated  in  other  mission  fields  in  Mexico  and  else¬ 
where. 

We  recommend  that  steps  be  taken  at  once  for  the  establishment  and 
maintenance  of  a  hospital  in  the  immediate  neighborhood  of  Mexico  City. 

(b)  In  Puebla,  medical  work  has  recently  been  opened.  The  physician 
in  charge  has  been  compelled  to  leave  the  field  on  account  of  illness.  There 
is  a  good  opening  for  medical  work  in  this  important  city  and  we  may  well 
expect  great  blessings  here  also  on  this  most  Christlike  method  of  work. 

(c)  At  San  Luis  Potosi  we  have  a  good  church  house,  two  promising 
outstations  (one  in  a  populous  slum  district,  the  other  in  a  needy  suburb), 
and  an  earnest  Mexican  pastor.  The  field  is  ripe  for  an  American  mis¬ 
sionary  physician. 


IX. 


Oman’s  Jfielt)  < 


orfe 


A  large  part  of  the  work  of  our  Woman’s  Society  is  educational  and 
is  covered  in  section  seven  of  this  report.  The  -present  section  concerns 
only  what  is  distinguished  as  “Field  Work.” 

We  have  in  the  City  of  Mexico  and  its  suburbs  six  points  where 
efficient  evangelistic  work  is  being  done.  At  Gaudalupe,  that  stronghold 
of  Catholicism,  we  have  in  addition  to  the  day  school,  a  vigorous  Sunday 
School  and  weekly  prayer  meeting.  These  are  conducted  by  Mrs.  Conwell 
who,  with  her  husband,  a  skillful  physician,  gives  medical  aid  to  any  who 
will  come  to  them  before  these  two  services.  Also,  each  day,  from  10  to 
12,  in  their  downtown  office,  they  give  time  to  the  poor  for  consultation 
and  dispensary  work.  The  brief  Bible  lesson  which  always  precedes  the 
medical  help,  offers  a  great  opportunity  for  good.  As  many  of  these  cases 
as  possible  are  followed  to  their  homes.  The  San  Pablo  Mission,  in  one 
of  the  poorest  districts  of  the  city,  under  the  care  of  one  of  our  oldest 
native  workers,  is  doing  excellent  service  in  industrial  and  Sunday  School 
work,  giving  access  as  all  this  work  does  to  the  homes.  The  crowded  con¬ 
dition  of  the  room  now  occupied  is  a  great  hindrance  to  the  growth  of 
the  work.  We  must  find  a  larger  and  better  place.  Another  worker  has 
rendered  most  effective  service  in  reaching  the  better  class  of  young  men 
and  women  through  evening  classes  in  English  and  Bible.  In  Miscoax, 
one  of  the  best  suburbs  of  the  city,  is  our  newest  mission  with  industrial 
and  Sunday  School  work.  Recently  a  Sunday  School  has  been  opened  in 
our  day  school  building  in  the  city.  This  is  largely  attended  and  is 
reaching  another  group  of  children.  With  scarcely  an  exception,  these 
children  come  from  Catholic  homes,  but  the  parents  are  so  anxious  that 
their  children  shall  have  educational  and  industrial  advantages  that  they 
will  brave  the  displeasure  of  the  priests  and  send  them.  We  are  gratified 
to  find  that  our  representatives  in  Mexico  City  are  doing  such  good  work 
and  that  there  is  among  them  such  a  beautiful  spirit  of  harmony  and 
co-operation. 

In  Puebla  we  have  one  field  worker  only,  but  her  knowledge  of  medicine 
gives  her  a  twofold  influence  upon  the  hearts  of  these  poor  and  needy 
people. 


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In  Aguascalientes  the  Society  supports  one  field  worker,  a  native 
Mexican,  a  woman  of  fine  character  and  tact.  Her  work  among  her  own 
people  in  the  church,  and  also  among  the  Americans,  is  spoken  of  in  the 
highest  terms. 

In  San  Luis  Potosi  we  have  had  no  missionary  for  some  time,  but  on 
October  1st  one  of  the  Mexican  graduates  of  the  Training  School  is  to 
begin  work  in  connection  with  the  church  there.  It  was  in  a  mission  of 
this  ehurch,  Encarnacion,  that  they  so  recently  suffered  great  persecution, 
so  there  is  special  need  of  wise  and  diligent  work. 

At  Nuevo  Laredo  we  have  one  native  worker  co-operating  with  the 
pastor  in  the  church  work. 

We  have  in  Mexico  a  splendid  corps  of  women,  both  native  and  Ameri¬ 
can.  We  rejoice  in  what  they  are  and  in  what  they  are  doing  for  this 
great  Republic,  so  full  of  opportunity  and  promise. 


X.  Cfjurtfj  ©JtficE  Mlorfe 

We  now  have  at  our  mission  stations  in  the  Republic  15  church  build¬ 
ings,  valued  at  $95,322.50  (gold).  This  leaves  nearly  fifty  other  stations 
with  nothing  better  than  rented  quarters. 

(a)  Monterey  is  the  oldest  and  strongest  of  our  mission  fields.  The 
church  numbers  over  three  hundred  and  is  the  largest  evangelical  church 
in  the  Republic.  The  Sunday  School  numbers  over  200.  The  building 
will  seat  only  about  200  comfortably,  and  the  school  rooms  in  the  basement 
are  manifestly  too  small  for  effective  work  in  either  the  Sunday  School 
or  day  school. 

The  Monterey  church  and  school  should  be  immediately  equipped  with 
a  building  of  sufficient  size  and  architectural  proportion  to  preach  its  own 
Gospel.  The  recent  floods  at  Monterey  have  greatly  weakened  the  financial 
ability  of  the  church.  But  it  owns  two  pieces  of  property  of  nearly  equal 
size  and  about  four  blocks  apart.  The  original  property  on  which  stands 
the  present  church  building  is  valued  at  $15,000  (gold),  the  new  lot  at  $3,500. 

There  are  about  $11,500  now  available  for  building  and  equipment, 
$10,000  being  a  grant  already  made  by  the  Home  Mission  Society.  A 
building  covering  the  entire  new  lot,  and  accommodating  the  church  with 
500  sittings,  the  Sunday  School  with  500  sittings,  the  day  school  with 
space  for  500  pupils,  and  the  theological  seminary  with  space  for  20  stu¬ 
dents  and  dormitories  for  same,  can  be  built  from  plans  already  in  hand 
for  $25,000.  If  to  the  $11,500  now  available  could  be  added,  say  $2,500,  as 
a  loan  from  the  American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society,  with  an  extension 
of  present  loan  of  $2,500,  there  would  be  available  $14,000  which,  with 
probably  local  help,  could  be  increased  to  $15,000,  leaving  the  house  and 
lot  now  occupied  by  the  church  for  use  during  the  building  period  and,  if 
possible,  to  be  sold  during  that  time  for  money  enough  to  complete  the  new 
structure.  If  the  sale  could  not  be  effected,  the  plans  could  be  drawn 
so  that  accommodations  for  day  school  and  Sunday  School  could  be  com¬ 
pleted,  leaving  the  audience  room  to  be  completed  when  the  lot  was  sold, 
or  the  church  and  basement  could  be  finished,  leaving  the  new  Sunday 
School  room  and  provision  for  theological  seminary  to  be  built  when  lot 
was  sold.  The  advantages  of  this  plan  over  rebuilding  on  the  old  lot  are 
opportunity  for  immediate  beginning,  use  of  old  plant  while  building,  and 
reduction  of  aid  required  from  Society  to  so  reasonable  an  amount  that  it 
could  be  granted  at  once. 


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(b)  Tampico  is  one  of  the  newest  and  most  promising  of  our  fields. 
A  capable  American  missionary  is  gathering  a  Mexican  church  of  unusually 
good  material,  and  is  at  the  same  time  developing  an  important  English- 
speaking  work  in  this  great  gateway  of  the  Republic.  We  have  an  ideally 
located  lot  and  ought  to  appropriate  $5,000  (gold)  at  once  toward  a  building. 

(c)  The  growth  of  both  the  Mexican  and  American  Baptist  churches  in 
Mexico  City  makes  it  impossible  for  them  to  longer  occupy  the  same  building 
with  advantage.  There  is  room  at  the  side  of  the  present  church  building 
to  construct  an  addition  seating  200  people.  This  could  be  made  to  ac¬ 
commodate  the  American  Baptist  Church  and  Sunday  School  for  the 
present.  The  whole  structure  would  appear  as  one  harmonious  building, 
only  of  more  impressive  proportions  than  now. 

The  building,  as  planned,  would  cost,  with  furnishings,  from  $4,000  to 
$5,000  (gold).  It  is  recommended  that  the  Home  Mission  Society  con¬ 
tribute  $2,000  toward  the  building,  provided  the  American  Church  pay  the 
balance  of  the  cost.  There  are  some  ten  thousand  Americans  in  Mexico 
City.  No  minister  there  has  larger  space  accorded  to  his  Gospel  messages 
by  the  English  newspapers  of  the  capital  than  Pastor  Brown,  of  our 
American  Church.  The  President  of  the  Republic  witnessing  an  athletic 
game  in  the  new  Y.  M.  C.  A.  building,  asked  who  the  American  player 
was.  When  told  that  it  was  this  Baptist  missionary,  he  expressed  cordial 
gratification  and  gratitude  for  such  wholesome  leadership  given  to  Mexican 
young  men. 

(d)  Our  promising  work  in  Oaxaca  is  housed  in  a  rented  building 
which  can  be  bought  now  for  $3,000  (gold).  It  is  well  adapted  for  both 
church  and  school  work.  We  are  paying  $288  rental  per  annum.  That  is 
the  equivalent  of  nearly  10  per  cent,  interest  on  what  it  would  cost  to 
buy  it.  To  purchase  the  property  would  be  a  safe  investment,  even  though 
it  should  be  sold  later  to  secure  a  more  expensive  site. 


XI.  American  Colonists 


There  are  twenty  or  more  colonies  of  American  agricultural  settlers 
in  Mexico.  At  Medina,  in  southern  Mexico,  we  have  an  organized  church. 
In  several  other  places  we  have  provided  occasional  preaching.  The  Depu¬ 
tation  visited  the  San  Dieguito  settlement,  in  eastern  Mexico.  Conditions 
prevail  and  needs  exist  similar  to  those  in  new  settlements  of  the  western 
United  States.  There  is,  however,  a  strong  additional  reason  for  endeav¬ 
oring  to  make  the  Gospel  triumphant  over  the  forces  of  evil.  The  Mexican 
authorities  foster  these  colonies  and  watch  them  closely.  Mexicans  in 
general  assume  that  these  communities  represent  Protestant  Christianity. 
We  ought  to  provide  at  least  one  of  the  workers  needed  for  the  colonists. 
All  interests  involved,  including  economy,  would  seem  to  be  best  served  by 
assigning  to  this  work,  while  they  are  learning  the  Spanish  language, 
young  men  who  have  consecrated  their  lives  to  Mexico.  Our  work  for 
Americans  in  cities,  which  has  been  considered  in  section  ten,  strongly 
confirms  this  view.  All  missionaries  in  Mexico  from  the  United  States 
should  be  expected  to  acquire  as  fast  as  possible  mastery  of  the  Spanish 
language. 


XII.  Volunteer  Ulorfe 


In  Monterey  is  Miss  Hole,  a  Baptist  lady  of  some  means,  who  has 
built  herself  a  home  there  and  has  learned  the  Spanish  language  in  order 
to  advance  the  cause  of  Christ  as  a  self-supporting  missionary  She  is 

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helping  in  our  training  school  for  ministers  and  in  many  other  ways. 
There  are  scores  of  others  in  the  churches  of  the  United  States,  so  situated 
that  they  could  do  likewise.  It  would  give  to  life  a  new  and  noble  zest, 
making  it  actually  divine  like  the  life  of  Christ  himself.  The  Deputation 
issues  a  call  for  such  women  to  help  leaven  Mexico  with  the  kingdom  of 
heaven. 

Since  Dr.  Josiah  Strong’s  visit  to  South  America  he  has  written  con¬ 
cerning  the  great  business  opportunities  there  for  enterprising,  educated 
young  men,  and  has  suggested  that  Christian  college  men,  who  are  not 
drawn  to  the  ministry  so-called,  consecrate  themselves  for  Christ’s  sake  to 
business  or  professional  careers  in  Latin  America.  Our  Deputation  to 
Mexico  is  convinced  that  this  is  one  of  the  great  calls  of  God  in  the  twen¬ 
tieth  century  for  high,  heroic,  altruistic  endeavor.  As  compared  with  this 
the  work  of  Cortez  and  his  comrades  was  poor  and  paltry.  In  these  days 
of  the  Panama  Canal  and  of  the  Bureau  of  American  Republics  a  call  may 
well  ring  through  college  halls  for  the  enlistment  of  a  company  of  modern 
Conquistadores.  As  Cortez  scuttled  his  ships  that  there  might  be  no  re¬ 
treat  in  his  destructive  conquest,  the  chivalry  of  the  Kingdom  of  God 
ought  now  to  enter  Mexico  with  inflexible  determination  for  peaceful, 
constructive  conquest. 


XIII.  g>ome  ©ultima  Principles 

1.  Our  mission  is  the  proclamation  of  a  positive  Gospel  and  the 
injection  of  its  principles  in  the  life  of  the  people.  Sometimes  mental 
surgery  is  necessary.  Obstructions  to  vital  processes  have  to  be  removed. 
Essentially,  however,  we  are  not  in  Mexico  to  tear  down  an  old  theology, 
but  to  build  up  a  new  life.  We  commend  our  missionaries  in  reducing 
controversy  to  the  lowest  degree.  So  far  as  possible  let  it  be  eliminated. 
This  principle  has  double  application  in  relation  to  fellow  evangelicals. 

2.  If  the  majority  of  the  people  were  never. to  become  Protestants, 
we  should  still  have  an  imperative  duty  to  build  up  the  strongest  evangeli¬ 
cal  communities  possible  for  the  sake  of  setting  a  pace  and  lifting  a  stand¬ 
ard  toward  which  the  whole  professedly  Christian  public  would  be  inevitably 
drawn.  The  Roman  Catholic  Bishop  in  another  portion  of  Latin  America 
said  to  the  writer  of  this  paragraph:  ‘‘Your  work  here  is  doing  us  good, 
it  is  stimulating  us  to  do  better  work  ourselves.”  The  embodiment  of 
Christ ’s  ideal  is  our  supreme  ministry.  Incarnation  is  the  great  work 
of  God. 

3.  The  hope  for  Mexico  is  through  an  indigenous  Christianity.  We 
rejoice  in  the  exceptionally  strong  Mexican  ministers  whom  God  has  given 
us.  Our  great  cry  to  the  Lord  of  the  harvest  must  be  that  he  thrust  forth 
more  such  into  the  field.  Ministerial  selection  and  training  are  vital. 

The  long  steps  which  some  of  the  churches  have  taken  toward  self- 
support  inspire  great  hopes  that  evangelical  Christianity  is  taking  root  in 
Mexico.  On  an  average  about  20  per  cent,  of  all  salaries  paid  to  our 
Mexican  workers  is  raised  on  their  fields.  The  Deputation  recommends 
the  formulation  of  a  specific  policy,  looking  toward  self-support  and  pastors’ 
salaries.  Possibly  by  insisting  on  a  gradual  reduction  each  year  of  the 
amount  appropriated  to  each  field,  this  might  be  accomplished.  Self- 
support  should  be  a  definite  policy,  and  all  self-respecting  churches  should 
strive  for  that  end. 

4.  Distribution  of  the  leaven  must  be  studied.  The  importance  of 
seizing  strategic  centers  of  large  population  cannot  be  overestimated.  But 
we  wonder  if  we  have  paid  as  much  attention  as  we  ought  to  the  towns 


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of  from  3,000  to  10,000  people  where  no  one  is  working.  Large  results  at 
small  outlay  may  be  possible  in  some  such  places. 

5.  For  the  next  few  critical  years  nothing  less  than  a  steadily  ag¬ 
gressive  policy  is  justifiable.  We  ought  to  open  up  at  least  two  new  points 
of  promise  each  year,  especially  such  places  as  are  not  worked  by  any 
other  denomination.  It  is  thought  that  one  point  with  a  native  worker, 
and  another  with  an  American  missionary  can  be  opened  at  a  cost  of  $2,500. 

“The  hope  of  Mexico  as  a  nation  lies  in  the  success  of  Protestant 
missions,”  said  Juarez,  the  great  reforming  President  of  Mexico.  The 
hope  of  Baptists  in  the  United  States  as  sincere  followers  of  Christ  is 
in  earnestly  loving  these  near  and  needy  national  neighbors. 


XIV.  Sctionsi  Kecommettiiei) 

A.  By  Both  Societies. 

1.  That  each  Society  agree  to  the  division  of  educational  work  in 
Mexico,  whereby  the  Woman’s  American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society 
assumes  the  support  of  the  teachers  in  the  day  schools  and,  for  the  present, 
the  teachers  in  the  boarding  school  for  girls,  and  the  American  Baptist 
Home  Mission  Society,  the  theological  school,  and  the  boys’  school  when 
established. 

2.  That  in  view  of  the  new  relations  of  the  United  States  to  Spanish¬ 
speaking  lands,  the  American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society  and  the 
Woman’s  American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society  respectfully  suggest  to 
Baptist  academies  and  colleges  that  instruction  in  Spanish  be  provided, 
even,  if  necessary,  in  place  of  some  language  less  vital  at  the  present 
juncture  of  American  life.  If  to  the  nearly  10,000,000  Spanish-speaking 
people  now  under  the  flag  of  the  United  States  in  Porto  Rico  and  the 
Philippines  we  add  our  near  neighbors  in  North  America,  to  say  nothing 
of  South  America,  25,000,000  people  in  closest  relations  with  us  use  the 
Castilian  tongue. 

3.  That  a  regular  system  of  graded  examinations  of  all  missionaries 
from  the  United  States  in  the  Spanish  language  be  used  at  the  ends  of 
their  three  first  years  of  service. 

4.  That  the  Guiding  Principles  suggested  in  section  thirteen  be 
adopted. 

5.  That  Latin  North  America  have  a  large  presentation  at  the  next 
anniversaries. 

B.  By  the  American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society. 

1.  That  the  Society  looks  with  favor  on  the  action  of  the  National 
Baptist  Convention  of  Mexico  proposing  that  there  be  but  one  Baptist 
Theological  Seminary  in  the  Republic,  to  be  conducted  jointly  by  the 
Mexico  Baptist  Convention,  the  American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society, 
and  the  Foreign  Mission  Board  of  the  Southern  Baptist  Convention. 

2.  That  the  wives  of  missionaries  from  the  United  States  be  com¬ 
missioned,  though  without  salaries. 


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3.  That  there  be  plaeed  in  the  missionary  budget  of  1911  for  new 
work: 


For  the  opening  of  two  new  stations .  $2,500 

For  salary  and  expenses  of  a  medical  missionary  at  San  Luis  Potosi.  1,500 

For  a  missionary  to  work  at  present  among  American  Colonists....  800 

For  work  at  Encarnacion .  1,000 

For  a  special  evangelistic  survey  in  the  State  of  Oaxaca .  75 

Total  .  $5,875 

4.  That  there  be  placed  in  the  Church  Edifice  budget  of  1911: 

For  addition  to  the  meeting  house  in  Mexico  City .  $2,000 

For  the  renovation  of  the  existing  portion  of  the  house .  1,000 

For  a  church  house  at  Tampico .  5,000 

Total .  $8,000 

Additional  loan  on  Monterey  building .  $2,500 

5.  That  a  special  item  be  placed  in  the  budget: 

For  a  hospital  site  and  building . $10,000 

6.  That  there  be  placed  in  the  Educational  budget  of  1911: 

For  equipment  of  new  day  schools .  $600 


C.  By  the  Woman’s  American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society. 

1.  That  the  Society  approve  of  the  opening  of  a  boarding  school  for 
girls  in  the  premises  now  occupied  in  Mexico  City. 

2.  That  a  matron  be  appointed  for  the  boarding  school  in  addition 
to  the  present  staff  of  the  day  school. 

3.  That  teachers  be  appointed  to  have  entire  charge  of  the  day 
schools  at  Puebla,  Aguascalientes  and  Montomorelos,  under  the  super¬ 
vision  of  the  General  Missionary  in  co-operation  with  the  Woman’s  Ameri¬ 
can  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society. 

4.  That  there  be  plaeed  in  the  budget  of  1911  of  the  Woman’s  Ameri¬ 
can  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society  for  new  work: 

For  salary  of  matron  in  girls’  boarding  department  of  the  school  in 


Mexico  City .  $400 

For  teachers  in  day  school  in  Puebla .  1,000 

For  teachers  in  day  school  in  Aguascalientes .  500 

For  American  teacher  in  day  school  in  Monterey .  500 

For  teachers  in  day  school  in  Montomorelos .  600 


Total  .  $3,000 


L.  C.  BARNES, 

GEORGE  SALE, 

E.  S.  OSGOOD, 

BRUCE  KINNEY, 

MARY  C.  REYNOLDS  (Mrs.  A.  E.) 
FANNY  B.  LESTER  (Mrs.  A.  C.) 


IS 


THE  NIGHT  AND  DAY  PRESS 
NEW  YORK 


